Morocco & "Olé!" (Music and comedy trio) Elastic & Francesca (Comedy duo) Immortals (Dance group) Rafael-Evitan Grombelka (Signing singer) Guy First (Hand fart act) Magus Utopia (Magic group) Rony & Jesse (Acrobat duo) Season 15 (2021) RTL announced in March 2021 that Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell will no longer be judges on the show. Three months after that, RTL announced that hosts Daniel Hartwich and Victoria Swarovski will no longer be part of the show as well. Later, RTL confirmed that fashion designer Michael Michalsky, football player Lukas Podolski, Dutch TV presenter Chantal Janzen, and the magician duo Ehrlich Brothers will be the new judges. Due to various absences of the main judges, there were changing guest judges throughout the season. While Evelyn Burdecki didn't return to the show, Chris Tall switched sides. He co-hosted the season with Lola Weippert. The season aired on RTL from 2 October 2021 to 11 December 2021. For the first time since 2013, there were two semi-finals again. The opera singer Elena Turcan won this season and €50,000. Winner: Elena Turcan (Opera singer) Runner-up: Vitória Bueno (Dancer) 3rd: Drew Colby (Hand shadow player) 4th: Inclusion Dance Show (Light dance group) 5th: Chris Cross (Dancer) 6th: Helena Berlinghof (Pianist) 7th: Keiichi Iwasaki (Comedy act) 8th: Light Balance Kids (Light dance group) 9th: Karabo Morake (Dancer) 10th: Na' Mouléma (Gospel choir) Season summary Judges and hosts Annotations 1 Lukas Podolski was replaced by Motsi Mabuse ("Audition 1"; "Audition 2"), Andrea Kiewel ("Audition 3"), Yvonne Catterfeld ("Audition 4"), Kaya Yanar ("Audition 5"), and Sophia Thomalla ("Audition 7") during season 15. 2 Riccardo Simonetti stepped in for Chantal Janzen in the first "Audition" of season 15. 3 Riccardo Simonetti ("Audition 6") and Thomas Gottschalk ("Semi-Final 2") replaced the Ehrlich Brothers during season 15. Reception Barbara Grofe of RP Online wrote in an early review: "Talents are little to see, but an awful lot of people with ego problems". In another review, it was criticized that also children at a very young age can present their talents. The youth protection also takes a close eye on the show for years now. Next to that, it has been highly criticized in recent seasons that candidates with no real talent are presented to the audience after a pre-casting to humiliate these people and push the ratings. Christian Richter writes about the show that the "performances are artificially drawn in the